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[email protected] SPRING 2021 - COURSE LISTINGS Please refer to the online schedule to access course section details and the course record numbers (CRNs) for registration. MATH JAM BOOT CAMP COURSES Math Jam is offered the week before the Fall and Spring semesters. This pre-semester, 1-week boot camp provides innovative learning interventions to prepare for upcoming mathematics courses with confidence. Math Jam is proven to increase student success and retention rates! This program provides a supportive, noncredit pathway for all students into a credit math course required to transfer. Embedded in this bootcamp are essential study and life skills to develop each student holistically before enrolling in a math course as well as rigorous learning support of prerequisite and key math concepts. MATH 66 MATH JAM FOR CALCULUS 0.5 Units Math Jam for Calculus I is a credit course for students preparing for Calculus I. Embedded are essential study and life skills to develop each student holistically, including career development. Students will be learning basic skills and transfer-level material with the goal of preparing them to be successful in their upcoming class. It is Strongly Recommended that students taking this course are enrolled in a calculus course. Math Jam for Calculus I is a 1-week support course prior to the start of the semester for students who wish to prepare for their upcoming Calculus I course prior to the start of the semester. This course is designed to prepare students to register for the calculus sequence with confidence, having learned key math concepts and learning skills necessary to succeed in college courses. MATH 67 MATH JAM FOR CALCULUS II 0.5 Units Math Jam for Calculus II is a credit course for students preparing for Calculus II. Embedded are essential study and life skills to develop each student holistically, including career development. Students will be learning basic skills and transfer-level material with the goal of preparing them to be successful in their upcoming class. It is Strongly Recommended that students taking this course are enrolled in a calculus course. Math Jam for Calculus II is a 1-week support course prior to the start of the semester for students who wish to prepare for their upcoming Calculus II course prior to the start of the semester. This course is designed to prepare students to register for the calculus sequence with confidence, having learned key math concepts and learning skills necessary to succeed in college courses. MATH 68 MATH JAM FOR CALCULUS III 0.5 Units Math Jam for Calculus III is a credit course for students preparing for Calculus III. Embedded are essential study and life skills to develop each student holistically, including career development. Students will be learning basic skills and transfer-level material in their upcoming class. It is Strongly Recommended that students taking this course are enrolled in a calculus course. Math Jam for Calculus III is a 1-week support course prior to the start of the semester for students who wish to prepare for their upcoming Calculus III course prior to the start of the semester. This course is designed to prepare students to register for the calculus sequence with confidence, having learned key math concepts and learning skills necessary to succeed in college courses. MUSIC MUS 1 INTRODUCTIONTO MUSIC 3.0 Units Music for enjoyment and understanding through informed listening, analysis, evaluation and discernment of musical elements, forms, and repertoire. Attendance at concerts and listening to a variety of music may be required. MUS 3 WORLD MUSIC 3.0 Units The study of the folk and art music of world cultures. Includes the traditional music of Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, China, Japan, Indonesia, India, Latin America, Europe, and Native America. Attendance at world music concerts is required. MUS 4 JAZZ IN AMERICAN CULTURE 3.0 Units History, trends, and influences of the phenomenon of jazz through integration of the cultures of (but not limited to) African-American, European-American and the Latin-American communities. Required listening, reading and concert attendance will guide the student to value jazz as a form of self-expression and improve the ability to listen and understand the various eras in jazz from pre-Dixieland to present day. MUS 5 AMERICAN CULTURES IN MUSIC 3.0 Units Music in twentieth century United States through the study of contributions of three selected groups from the following: African-Americans, Latin-Americans, Asian-Americans, European- Americans, and Native Americans. Emphasis on understanding diverse styles, and on integrating these styles into American music. Concert, religious, and folk-pop music will be included. MUS 6 BASIC MUSIC SKILLS 2.0 Units Essentials of music through notation, time elements, melody, harmony, and tonality, texture, dynamics and knowledge of the keyboard. Sight singing and ear training. MUS 8B THEORY AND MUSICIANSHIP 2 4.0 Units Continues diatonic harmony through part writing and ear training exercises as typified by musical practice from 1600 to the present, continues solfeggio, chord recognition, melodic and rhythmic dictation, voice leading involving four -part choral writing, and figured bass realization. Introduces harmonic dictation, cadential elaboration, non-dominant seventh chords, and an introduction Prerequisite: MUS 8A with a minimum grade of C Strongly Recommended: MUS 8A, MUS 21A with a minimum grade of C MUS 10B THEORY AND MUSICIANSHIP 4 4.0 Units This course incorporates the concepts from Music 10A. In addition, through writing and analysis, the course will include: post-Romantic techniques such as borrowed chords and modal mixture, chromatic mediants, Neapolitan and augmented-sixth chords, 9th, 11th and 13th chords, altered chords and dominants;